Here is this week's Nielsen Market Watch report which features Canadian music stats for the current week and YTD with comparisons to last year. This chart is published every Tuesday.
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Here is this week's Nielsen Market Watch report which features Canadian music stats for the current week and YTD with comparisons to last year. This chart is published every Tuesday. The abbreviation "TEA" is a term used to describe the sale of music downloads or singles. A track equivalent album is equal to 10 tracks, or 10 songs.
Cyndi Lauper
The final leg of the pop icon's 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' tour will see her play 25 North American Dates. Aqua, Three Days Grace, and Neil Young have all added Canadian dates too.
Cyndi Lauper will be bringing the fun to Toronto and Vancouver this summer.
The '80s pop icon is heading out on the final leg of her 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' tour for 25 North American dates. She'll play Toronto's Budweiser Stage on July 27 and Vancouver's Rogers Arena on August 21.
Billed as her final major tour — and her first headlining tour in a decade — it saw her sell out Madison Square Garden last fall, bringing joy back to the venue and ridding it of "bad energy" after a Trump rally, as Billboard's Joe Lynch wrote. Lauper will head to Australia and Japan in April before bringing the tour back home in July and August.
The tour is raising money for the Tides Foundation's Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Human Rights Fund, with $150,000 raised so far. Lauper was also recently nominated for the 2025 class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, giving her plenty to celebrate on the road.
Tickets go on sale March 14 at 10 A.M. Find more Canadian concert announcements below.
Danish band Aqua are crossing the Atlantic this fall for some Canadian dates. The "Barbie Girl" band got a recent boost from their 2023 collab with Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj for the Barbie soundtrack, and they're ready to go party in a handful of Canadian cities this fall. Tickets are on sale now.
Aqua Canadian Dates:
September 5, 2025 - Vancouver, BC - Orpheum Theatre
September 12, 2025 - Calgary, AB - Grey Eagle Resort and Casino
September 16, 2025 - Winnipeg, MB - Burton Cummings Theatre
September 19, 2025 - Toronto, ON - Great Canadian Casino
September 24, 2025 - Pickering, ON - Pickering Casino Resort
September 27, 2025 - Hamilton, ON - FirstOntario Concert Hall
Another Danish act are touring Canada this year — rock band Volbeat will hit the road with homegrown heroes Three Days Grace in June. The bands will perform 10 Canadian dates together, from Vancouver to Ottawa, celebrating Three Days Grace's reunion with their lead singer, Adam Gontier, who returned to the band in 2024. Their first single with Gontier back, "Mayday," sits atop the Canadian Mainstream Rock airplay chart, indicating there's definitely appetite for a live setting.
General on-sale begins March 14, with pre-sale on now.
Three Days Grace and Volbeat Dates
June 7, 2025 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena ^
June 9, 2025 - Calgary, AB - Scotiabank Saddledome ^
June 10, 2025 - Edmonton, AB - Rogers Place &
June 12, 2025 - Saskatoon, SK - SaskTel Centre ^
June 13, 2025 - Winnipeg, MB - Canada Life Centre &
June 16, 2025 - Laval, QC - Place Bell ^
June 17, 2025 - Quebec City, QC - Videotron Centre &
June 19, 2025 - Toronto ON - Budweiser Stage &
June 21, 2025 - London, ON - Canada Life Place ^
June 22, 2025 - Ottawa, ON - Canadian Tire Centre &
^ Volbeat Closing
& Three Days Grace Closing
Canadian legend Neil Young has added a couple of extra dates to his love earth tour with his new band, The Chrome Hearts. Toronto and Vancouver will both get second shows, at Budweiser Stage — where Young performed last summer, too — and Deer Lake Park, respectively. Tickets for those shows are on sale now.
Neil Young Canadian Dates
August 19, 2025 - Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage
September 6, 2025 - Vancouver, BC - Deer Lake Park
September 8, 2025 - Vancouver, BC - Deer Lake Park
Emerging Toronto rapper SadBoi will also be playing a hometown show this spring, taking the stage at the Drake Underground on May 8. She recently picked up a Juno nomination for dance recording of the year with "No Time," and with a dedicated fanbase called the Crybabiez, she could be on the verge of a big breakout — see her while her star is still on the rise. Tickets are on sale now.
